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Archaeopoetics : word, image, history / Mandy Bloomfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bloomfield, Mandy, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Modern and contemporary poetics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry, Modern--History and criticism.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Imagery (Psychology) in literature.
- Visual perception in literature.
- Poetics.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Archaeopoetics explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Archaeopoetics
- "Radical visible subsurface": Susan Howe's frictional histories of the underword
- "The word. the image": Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's fractured forms
- "Haemorrhage of uns -": Maggie O'Sullivan's corporeal salvagings
- Isles full of noises: Kamau Brathwaite's archipelagic poetics
- Alluvial siftings: M. Nourbese Philip's marine archaeopoetics
- Afterword: archaeopoetic afterlives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817358532
- 0817358536
- OCLC:
- 922034524
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